Originally Posted by
HighFlight
I have been told by Ops to go to a particular gate, the same one given on the in-range, and when I got there, it was occupied. A second call to Ops, and they basically said, “Oops. My bad. Go around to the other side and park now.”
Since it is a company requirement to call ops, I do. Hopefully you do too. Even at outstations where I KNOW they will not answer, I call at least once.
Couple weeks ago in RDU, call ops they say gate C10, ramp tells us gate change, D something, the one around the corner at the end inside along the road. Get there, ramp calls us back and says whops sorry we are wrong. Landed 15 early and got to the gate 10 late after we had to be towed in, pushed back so we could taxi around the ramp. Sometimes you just can’t win with ops or ramp.